page_title: Johan Gregor van der Schardt
hierarchical_section_title: Johan Gregor van der Schardt
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Johan Gregor van der Schardt: Büste der Anna Imhoff, Nürnberg um 1480, gebrannter Ton, originale Fassung. Skulpturensammlung (Inv. 539, erworben 1858, Sammlung Minutoli), Bode-Museum Berlin. English: Johan Gregor van der Schardt: Bust of Anna Imhoff, Nuremberg c. 1480, terracotta, original colour. Skulpturensammlung (inv. no. 539, acquired in 1858, Alexander von Minutoli collection), Bode-Museum Berlin.
context_page_description: Johan Gregor van der Schardt was a sculptor from the Northern Renaissance.
  He toured Italy in the 1560s and was in the service of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna from 1569 to 1576, whilst also taking commissions in Nuremberg, where he specialised in painted terracotta busts, including a self-portrait of about 1573, one of the earliest such by a sculptor.
  From c. 1576 to c. 1580, he worked on the construction of the Uraniborg observatory.
  After 1576 he moved to the royal court of Denmark where he is presumed to have worked during the 1580s and died in the early 1590s, perhaps at Uraniborg on 30 November 1591.
  Unusually for a non-Italian artist, his work was praised by Giorgio Vasari.
context_section_description: Johan (or Jan) Gregor van der Schardt (Nijmegen, Netherlands, c. 1530/31 – Denmark, after 1581) was a sculptor from the Northern Renaissance.
  He toured Italy in the 1560s (working in Bologna) and was in the service of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna from 1569 to 1576, whilst also taking commissions in Nuremberg, where he specialised in painted terracotta busts, including a self-portrait of about 1573, one of the earliest such by a sculptor.
  From c. 1576 to c. 1580, he worked on the construction of the Uraniborg observatory.
  After 1576 he moved to the royal court of Denmark (with a return to Nuremberg in 1579) where he is presumed to have worked during the 1580s and died in the early 1590s, perhaps at Uraniborg on 30 November 1591.
  Unusually for a non-Italian artist, his work was praised by Giorgio Vasari.
caption: Bust of Anna Imhoff, c.1580?
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